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Show KEARNS ST. ANN'S ORPHANAGE. Last week our venerable Bishop, when sending : to his people through this newspaper,' his message of paternal affection and Christmas greetings, did u? the kindness to say very encouraging and friendly words of the Intermountain Catholic. In ' ' his gracious address the venerable prelate tells us.: "There are two favors for which we are not ashamed to beg one is prayers for ourselves, and the other is that in every Catholic home there is found and read a Catholic newspaper."' The Eight Reverend Prelate, in the absorption ; of his thoughts, we take it, forgot for the moment, a something very dear to his' heart. f The Bishop, spiritually, is not needy and poor, he is enriched with the alms of God and "does not require our prayers, though in his humility he pleads for them. His forty years of missionary life "in labor and painfulness. in watchings often, in ' hunger and thirst and perils in the wilderness" in in the days and in a region which tried men's souls, t have made his hopes a certainty. If the strong be lief of St. Paul in the unalterable justice of God, I prevailed upon him to write, three years before his martyrdom: 'I have fought a good fight, I have 1 finished my course, I have kept the faith. For the : rest there is laid up for me a crown of righteous ness, which the Lord, the just judge, will render to me," surely then nothing but the humility of Bishop Scanlan urges him to appeal to us for the charity of our prayers. If, then, in his admirable address to his people, the Bishop had asked for prayers for 1 ' the Kearns St. Ann's Orphanage, he would have touched a cord in his own great heart, and in the 1 hearts of us all. I We do not believe that his new cathedral a I monument to his zeal and the generosity of his friends is as dear to his heart, as are the children chil-dren housed in his orphanage. It is idle for us to. ppcak of the apostolic charity of our Bishop or his i tender pity for the poor and the fatherless. - We i sll know it, and we love him for it. I ; This splendid institution, the Kearns St. Ann's I Orphanage, protecting 163 children, is an endur- 1 ing example- of Catholic benevolence and a me- j morinl to the Bishop and to the charity and liber- I alitv of the gentleman and his wife tbiJ; made it I possible. I Under the care of eleven sisters of the Com- I m unity of the Holy Cross, the orphanage is a mod- ' . I il charity. And if it be asked, what are the sds- 1 rers paid for looking after these 168 little ones, 1 you will be told: "the food they eat, the clothes jj they wear and the beds they sleep on." It is the most unique example of pure and disinterested be-; be-; nevolence in the state of Utah. The devotion, self- sacriiicc and practical charity of these ladies, whr.m we call sisters, are marvelous proofs of tho influence of God's grace on human souls and of t lie fftct of the power of the Holy Spirit on hu-v hu-v man hearts. These ladies have bidden an eternal ' farewell to the world and the world's p1 asures and have offered themselves as living visti'ii? on the Altai of .Charity, for the salvation ofahe fatherless father-less and theVards of Jesus Christ. Surely their reward beyond the grave will be very great. Winter and summer the sisters rise at 5 a. m. At 5:00 they are in the chapel praying to God and meditating on His eternal truths. At 6 o'clock they assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and at 6 :30 awake the children. At 7 the little ones are I served breakfast by the sisters and at 9 o'clock I school opens with a petition to God, that in His I mercy he would bless them all. In addition to the I ordinary common school education, those of the f children of an age to learn are- taught rnannero J . V - . 1 and morals, and are trained to believe in God, in the Holy Trinity, in the divinity and resurrection of Christ in the judgment to come and a final accounting ac-counting to God for sins committed in the flesh. Forty-three of the boys and girls are taught shorthand short-hand and typewriting, and some of the best stenographers stenog-raphers and typewriters filling luorative positions in our city aro graduates of Kearns St. Ann's Orphanage. Or-phanage. We would hardly look for it in an. orphanage, or-phanage, but one of the sisters devotes her time exclusively to teaching singing to the children and music to those of the girls who show an aptitude for the piano. They lost one or both their parents at a tender age, and have been sent here to be educated edu-cated and trained morally. If the surviving parent par-ent or guardian can afford to pay a small sum monthly it is gratefully accepted, but the orphan, pay or no pay, is cheerfully received and no discrimination dis-crimination shown. The building throughout, the dormitories, the bath rooms, the spacious halls, the class rooms and dining hall are scrupulously clean and evoke expressions ex-pressions of surprise from visitors. There is no hotel in our city more visibly clean or better managed. man-aged. Call in and go through the orphanage and verify for yourself our statements. To conduct this great institution, to heat it, light it, keep the building in repair, and furnish food and clothing call for a liberal expenditure. Where the Bishop gets the money is to us an unsolved problem. But the orphanage is not in debt, and we challenge any school, college or academy in Utah to show us 168 better looking or healthier children, which means that they are well fed and well cared for. The Bishop, we are persuaded, stints himself very often for these children. WTe do "not know it to be so, but we suspect it, and we want our readers to send him a little money, now and then, to help him out, and, that he may wear better clothes and not give all his money away. Then, when any of our subscribers, outside of Salt Lake, come to our city, we ask them to run down to Kearns St. Ann's Orphanage, go through the building, see the children children and inspect a great Catholic institution. in-stitution. And now, one word more. When you are making your will, let the name of Kearns St. ' Ann's Orphanage appear somewhere in it. |